Seas0nPass Cuts the Cord for 4.4.4

Happy New Year! Today we are happy to release an updated version of Seas0nPass that supports an untethered jailbreak of the latest 4.4.4 (iOS 5.0.1) AppleTV software. Big thanks goes to the world famous @pod2g for doing the lion's share of the work to make this new version possible.

YEAH! Thanks a bunch pod2g and FireCore!!
Jailbreaking went (almost) without problems.
I had to deviate from the jailbreak guide on a single point though to get it to work, because at first I couldn't get it in DFU mode. When connecting the ATV2 with the USB cable it only gave me 2 short flashes of light, and then nothing.
So instead I had to first connect the power cable and then quickly connect the USB cable. Then it began to flash rapidly, and I could get it into DFU mode.
When restoring in iTunes it ran through the restore process twice rather slowly, and ended up with error 1602 restore failed (or something similar.)
But even though iTunes said it failed, the jailbreak went successful as far as I can see. When starting it up on my TV, I have the FireCore logo, and I can SSH to it.

Now I will run it for a couple of days without installing anything to see if it runs as expected, before I purchase the ATV Flash.

I'm a little fuzzy on this-- I bought Apple TV about 5 months ago, bought aTV Flash at that point, did the jailbreak and so forth and everything was fine. Since then I've upgraded my aTV software using the "Manage" menu, per the previous blog posts. So far, so good. So with this... do I need/want to do this? Do I take my AppleTV and re-jailbreak it, and then re-install aTV? I guess I don't understand how this fits into what I have now. Thanks.

Whats the recent intel on that in regards to 4.4.4 compatibility issues??
Was hoping the Un-Tether would address that problem,
Are there any work-arounds on getting it to work that anybody might be aware of
with out having to downgrade back to 4.3.3.
Plex consists of 90% of ATV2 use .

sorry in advance for the newbee question: I currently have my ATV2 with OS 4.3 jailbroken - do I need first to upgrade to OS 4.4 and then perform the new jailbreak, or can I simply perform the jailbreak (because in the instructions it reads: "The latest AppleTV software will be downloaded and used to create a custom 'jailbroken' software file".).

Thanks for clarifying and thanks for the great work - I also really enjoy the aTV flash (back) and keep on recommending it to all my friends!

Just searched for backup, and now realise that's what the cloud backup is used for. Could someone look to update the install instructions for SeasonPass to suggest if you are an existing use to make sure you have taken a backup before running SeasonPass if you want to avoid having to reconfigure all of your Apps. Fortunately I have been taking the backups once a week for a while (even though I hadn't bothered to understand what it was used for).

Thanks Guys for the great support for ATV & ATV2. It makes this the best piece of Hardware for the living room by a long way.

No matter what I try, the restore always fail in 1601... I tried the fixes listed in http://forum.firecore.com/topic/4328 to no avail... I can see the new ipsw (AppleTV2,1_4.4.4_9A406a_SP_Restore) under ~/Library/Application Support/Seas0nPass/Firmware but iTunes seems to be stuck forever on "Preparing Apple TV for restore..." and then eventually gives up with 1601 error.

I tried to switch USB port (from recent iMac so there is enough power), still no go.

I tried to do a "normal" restore and this is working so I know the USB port and cable are fine...

Two days ago I bought ATV2 and learned of this software. I downloaded Seas0nPass and purchased aTV Flash (black). I was extremely shocked, surprised and happy to see and email about this new update. I stared reading the comment to see the success of others and avoid any pitfalls if any. I was very shocked to read all of the comments from ppl bitching about various things with respect to this new release.. I never comment on blogs/forums etc but felt obligated as few seems to be grateful for all of the work that you guys have put into the development of the software which allows us (as consumers) to do things that Apple did not care to put into the software for what ever reason (for me connecting to my NAS storage device - opposed to using iTunes was important). As a developer, I wanted to give you guys a big THANKS for all of the hard work, quick turn around and continued support. For those of you that are complaining - try opening up your editor and coding something like this for yourself (for free might I add) before you start sharing your twisted views on software that is being offered a not cost to you. Quit being so unappreciative and just learn to say thanks - it goes along way!!!

Hi Alex, SeasonPass is the tool used to prepare -- Jailbreak -- your AppleTV so that you can THEN install the ATVFlash software. So you do need to do both (SeasonPass first) and you'll be up and running in no time.